Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

I don't do the things other people call "play."

I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.

A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

Definitions belong to the definer, not the defined.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.